From: djb@invalid.com   
      
   On 18/12/2025 16:31, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > On 12/17/2025 4:44 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >> "Snag"  wrote in message news:10huu93$j7c2$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>   
   >>    I know I'm chiming in ait late here ... but my bench top mill is an   
   >> RF45 clone , and it's been more than enough mill for all my projects .   
   >> Including multiple gears cut , end mills sharpened (with a fixture) and   
   >> all kinds of other projects . I highly recommend a rotary table for   
   >> indexing , mine's 90:1 gear ratio .   
   >> Snag   
   >   
   > For gear cutting (precision anyway) an indexing head might be far   
   > better than a rotary table.  In either case advance to every position   
   > in the same direction and with light pressure on the handle lock the   
   > rotation.   
   >   
   >   
   >> ----------------------------   
   >>   
   >> Thanks. I'm not familiar with new machinery and my nice 1950's/60's   
   >> American iron is scarce.   
   >>   
   >> I get more use from a 1965 South Bend than I ever could a 1965 Mustang.   
   >   
   > Yeah, but the 65 mustang in similar functional condition (no holes,   
   > and works) might have better resale value.  That being said I had the   
   > opportunity to buy a few cars cheap as a young man that people would   
   > kill for today.   
   >   
   >   
   If I had a £ $ etc for every person I knew that said 'If I had only kept   
   that sports car from when I was a student it would be worth a fortune   
   now' I would be quite well off. Sell the Mustang and you might me able   
   to buy mint US iron machine tool or new.   
      
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